roguelike

Roguelike A playbook for roguelikes — the turn engine, procedural dungeons, field-of-view, permadeath, and run economy. This is a compositional skill: it orchestrates procedural generation, tilemaps, save handling, and AI into a run-based game. It does not re-teach noise/RNG or tilemap APIs; it defines the loop and the systems that make a run compelling. When to use Use when building a turn-based, grid-based dungeon crawler where each death ends the run and the world is regenerated — a roguelike or "roguelite" (with meta-progression). Use when designing procedural dungeons, FOV/fog-of-war, permadeath stakes, or loot tables. When not to use: real-time action with roguelike dressing → build the action genre ( platformer / fps-shooter ) and layer procedural-gen . Deep stats/quests/dialogue without permadeath → rpg . Open-world needs/crafting → survival-crafting . What makes it a roguelike (design anchor) Show more Installs 898 Repository gamedev-skills/…t-skills GitHub Stars 432 First Seen Jun 27, 2026 Security Audits Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass Socket Pass Snyk Pass